Professor Filippomaria Pontani: “Vingt-quatre pattes de mouche : Greek manuscripts and beyond”
Dear Colleagues,
As previously announced, the second series of online lectures organized by the Fédération Internationale des Associations d’Études Classiques (FIEC) to celebrate its 75th anniversary will start this coming Thursday (11th April). The full program (with abstracts and links) is available on the FIEC website (www.fiecnet.org).
We are pleased to invite you to the first lecture:
Professor Filippomaria Pontani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).
“Vingt-quatre pattes de mouche : Greek manuscripts and beyond”
April 11th, 2024, at 7 pm CEST (Central European Summer Time)
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84560724537?pwd=HAyDYNqm9fDexquId4zh6QxSSbU7Yc.1
Abstract:
Studies of Greek manuscripts and Greek manuscript culture have made enormous leaps forward in recent decades. While academic practice tends to parcel off Altertumswissenschaft by allotting special inquiries to palaeographers, papyrologists, philologists, historians of culture, Byzantinists etc., only the fruitful interaction between these disciplines can enable significant progress in the recovery, the edition and the interpretation of ancient and medieval Greek literature and wisdom. Incidentally, this approach is not only paramount for textual criticism, but it also has much to tell about phenomena of reception and appropriation that have shaped the Classical heritage throughout the centuries.
Filippomaria Pontani is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome. While primarily concerned with scholarship and manuscript transmission in the Byzantine and humanistic period (from Plutarch’s Natural Questions to Planudes’ edition of Ptolemy, down to Pletho’s De Homero), he is currently editing the scholia to Homer’s Odyssey (five volumes so far, 2007–2022; prolegomena: Sguardi su Ulisse, 2005). He has published extensively on Greek and Latin texts (from Sappho’s Nachleben to Callimachus’ Aitia, from Aeschylus’ Choephori to Euripides’ Medea, from the rise of ancient grammar to allegory and the literary facies of some ancient myths) as well as on Byzantine, Humanist (Poliziano’s Liber Epigrammatum Graecorum, 2002; Kondoleon’s Scritti omerici, 2018; the anthology of "neualtgriechische Gedichte" The Hellenizing Muse, 2022, ed. with Stefan Weise) and Modern Greek literature (Poeti greci del Novecento, 2010). He co-directs (with S. Valente) the Sammlung der gr. und lat. Grammatiker, (with Alberto Camerotto) the project Classici Contro, and (with Anna Santoni) a series of modern receptions of Classical myth (last issue: a piece by W. Mouawad, Pisa 2023).
Yours sincerely,
Thomas Schmidt
FIEC Secretary General
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmidt
FIEC Secretary General / Secrétaire général
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